S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 60. (Budapest, 1999)

Schizoprymnus rasus sp. n. 2 (Figs 85-94) Material examined (12) — Female holotype: Ghana, FJagjamze, 100 km SW from Tamale, 8 January 1969, leg. B. Entz - Holotype is deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Department of Zoology), Budapest, Hym. Typ. No. 7877. Etymology — The species name "rasus" refers to the effaced second suture of cara­pace. Description of the female holotype — Body 2.5 mm long. Antenna as long as head, mesosoma and first tergite combined and with 20 antennomeres. Second flagellomere a bit longer than first flagellomere, further flagellomeres gradually shortening and distal­ly indistinctly attenuating so that penultimate flagellomere just 1.5 times as long as broad (Fig. 85). - Head in dorsal view (Fig. 86) transverse, twice as broad as long, eye one­third longer than temple, latter rounded, occiput moderately excavated. Ocelli elliptic and forming a wide triangle, OOL a bit longer than POL. Clypeus 2.5 times as wide as high, its lower margin feebly bisinuate, laterally pointed (Fig. 87). Eye in lateral view 1.75 times as high as wide, temple beyond eye evenly wide and somewhat less wide than eye. Head polished. Face hairpunctured, interspaces more or less greater than punctures. Mesosoma in lateral view 1.3 times as long as high. Precoxal suture widely rugulose. Propodeum rugose, areola basalis clearly carinated, postero-laterally with a pair of tuber­cules. - Hind femur 3.6 times as long as broad distally (Fig. 88). Hind tarsal claw as in Fig. 89. Fore wing shorter than body. Pterostigma (Fig. 90) wide, 2.5 times as long as wide and issuing r from its middle, r shorter than half width of pterostigma, 1-RÎ somewhat shorter than pterostigma, 2-R1 half as long as 1-R1 and approaching tip of wing. Carapace as long as mesosoma, in dorsal view (Fig. 91) 1.4 times as long as broad somewhat posteriorly from its middle. Pair of keels extending to basal half of first ter­gite. Second tergite somewhat longer than first tergite, third tergite half as long as sec­ond tergite; first suture distinct, second suture hardly distinct; carapace (or tergites 1-3) strio-rugose with anastomoses (Fig. 91). Carapace in lateral view 2.6 times as long as high (Fig. 92). Hind margin of carapace moderately excised (Fig. 93). Ovipositor sheath as long as carapace (Fig. 91). Distal end of ovipositor sheath as in Fig. 94. Body black; face and mesopleuron below tegula brown, temple and carapace laterally (i.e. its declivous lateral part) with faint brownish tint. Scape, pedicel and flagellomeres 1-3 yellow, rest of flagellum darkening yellow to blackish. Mandible, tegula and legs lemon yellow. Fifth tarsomeres of legs 1-2, distal end of hind tibia and entire hind tar­sus faintly brownish fumous. Wings hyaline, pterostigma brown, veins light brown. Male and host unknown. Distribution: Ghana. With the help of De Saeger's key (1948: 231-234) the new species, Schizoprymnus rasus sp. n., runs to S. tridentatus (De Saeger, 1948) (Zaire) considering their common features as vertex polished, OOL at most 1.5 times as long as POL, second suture faint­ly distinct and carapace apically moderately excised; the two species are distinguished by the features keyed: 1 (2) Lower margin of clypeus with a median denticule (Fig. 243 in De Saeger 1948: 235). First suture of carapace clearly distinct, second suture distinct (Figs

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